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French Fdn Tr Udecl

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$420k
Granted FY2024still arriving
69
Grants FY2024still arriving
18
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Environment$1.0MEducation$230kAnimals$195kHealth$157kArts & Culture$107kHuman Services$91kYouth Development$85kFood & Nutrition$66kOther$0
02FY2024 · 69 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k53 grants · $226k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $195k
$5,000
Median grant
18
States reached
$7.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF NH FORESTS$20,000
FRIENDS OF BIG ISLAND POND$17,500
GRANITE STATE WOODLAND INSTITUTE$17,000
SOUTHEAST LAND TRUST OF NEW HAMPSHIRE$15,000
EASTERN ADAPTIVE SPORTS INC$13,000
VERMONT ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND$12,000
THE WILDLIFE SOCIETY$10,000
REAL AMERICAN HARDWOOD COALITION$10,000
CLEAN ENERGY NH$10,000
BABSON COLLEGE$10,000
COLBY COLLEGE$10,000
STRAWBERY BANKE MUSEUM$10,000
GREAT PLAINS CONSERVATION FOUNDATION$10,000
NH AUDUBON SOCIETY$10,000
NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $59k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CAMP SUNSHINE: $10k → 12%RE-MEMBER: $5k → 42%CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF NH: $1k → 9%CAMP SUNSHINE: $8k → 12%CAMP SUNSHINE: $8k → 12%RUNWAY TO RECOVERY: $5k → 10%WINDRUSH FARM: $5k → 10%RUNWAY FOR RECOVERY: $5k → 10%NE DISABLED ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION: $4k → 10%NE DISABLED ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION: $4k → 10%NORTHEAST DISABLED ATHLETIC ASSOC: $4k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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VT
NH
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WI
MI
NY
MA
SD
IN
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
CO
NE
WV
VA
MD
NM
TN
NC
DC
MS
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 84 repeat orgs$421k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

84 repeat relationships: 53 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

84
66

Total granted

$1.7M
$334k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+16%

Still filing today

67%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $87k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentEducationAnimalsPhilanthropyArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF BIG ISLAND POND
    5× · 2020–2024 · $145k · revenue +12% · 37% of their budget
  • GS
    GRANITE STATE WOODLAND INSTITUTE
    4× · 2021–2024 · $90k · revenue +148%
  • IC
    ISLAND CONSERVATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $52k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • GS
    GRANITE STATE HARDWOOD INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • AF
    AMERICAN FOREST FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $18k · revenue +73%
  • KL
    Killingworth Land Trust
    one grant, 2021 · $13k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
2
Midcoast Conservancy

The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.

Environment
3
Wildlands Trust Inc

The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…

Environment
4
Sudbury Valley Trustees Inc

Sudbury valley trustees, inc. ("the organization") works to protect natural areas and farmland for wildlife and people in the 36 communities that surround the sudbury, assabet, and concord rivers. the organization cares for some of the…

Environment
5
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…

Environment
6
The Vermont River Conservancy Inc

Protect land along rivers, lakes and wetlands of vt; protect public access, wildlife habitat, scenic natural beauty, and ecological integrity.

Human Services
7
Massachusetts Outdoor Heritage Foundation Inc Attn Susan Sacco
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8
Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation

Northeast wilderness trust is a regional land trust working to preserve and restore forever-wild landscapes for nature and people in new york, vermont, new hampshire, maine, massachusetts and connecticut.

Environment
9
Great Pond Mountain Conservation Tr

Conserving land, water and wildlife habitat for the communities of northwest hancock county. protecting our legacy of: abundant wildlife habitat and biodiversity clean water rural character and scenic beauty working forests and farms…

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10
Royal River Conservation Trust

The royal river conservation trust (rrct) is a regional land trust working primarily in seven maine municipalities. the trust owns,cares for, and stewards land and conservation easements to protect land and water resources for the general…

Environment
11
Sebasticook Regional Land Trust

The mission of the SRLT is to recognize and conserve the rich wild and workinglandscape of Central Maine's Sebasticook River watershed through conservation,stewardship and education. Our focal programs are land conservation for…

Environment
12
Kennebunk Land Trust

Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New England Forestry Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Blackstone Headwaters Coalition. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

104 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 104 of the 165 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
30
Early backer (in before they grew)
100/104
Grantees still filing
82/104
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS FOREVER: $42,500 · OtherVERMONT ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC: $40,000 · OtherNH AUDUBON SOCIETY: $37,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $33,000 · OtherSOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF NH FORESTS: $30,000 · Other+83 more: $666,500 · Other+83 moreFRIENDS OF BIG ISLAND POND: $144,500 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF BIG ISLAND PONDGRANITE STATE WOODLAND INSTITUTE: $89,500 · EnvironmentGRANITE STATE WOODLAND INSTITUT…Guilford Land Conservation Trust Inc: $63,000 · EnvironmentGuilford Land Conservation Trus…ISLAND CONSERVATION: $52,000 · EnvironmentISLAND CONSERVATIONBLACKSTONE RIVER COALITION: $25,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN ENERGY NH: $20,000 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION FISHERIES INC: $20,000 · Environment+25 more: $179,500 · Environment+25 moreGOVERNOR DUMMER ACADEMY THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY: $70,500 · EducationGOVERNOR DUMME…The President and Trustees of Colby College: $40,000 · EducationThe President …BABSON COLLEGE: $40,000 · EducationBABSON COLLEGENorthern Forest Center Inc: $30,000 · EducationNorthern Fores…COTTING SCHOOL INC: $23,000 · EducationCOTTING SCHOOL…COTTONWOOD GULCH EXPEDITIONS: $15,000 · EducationCOTTONWOOD GUL…CONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $13,000 · EducationROCKING THE BOAT INC: $10,000 · EducationMIDDLEBURY STUDIO SCHOOL: $10,000 · Education+5 more: $21,500 · Education+5 moreNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $47,500 · AnimalsGREAT PLAINS CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $35,000 · AnimalsADVOCATES FOR SNAKE PRESERVATION: $23,500 · AnimalsWHITE BUFFALO INC: $10,000 · AnimalsAmerican Bird Conservancy: $8,000 · AnimalsTHE BLUEFIN COLLABORATIVE: $7,000 · Animals+3 more: $11,000 · AnimalsLand Conservation Assistance Network: $51,000 · PhilanthropySoutheast Land Trust of New Hampshire: $33,000 · PhilanthropyGreat Mountain Forest Corporation: $18,000 · PhilanthropyFriends of National Guard & Reserve FamiliesInc DBA Military Friends Fnds: $8,000 · PhilanthropyDANIELS FUND: $4,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $5,500 · PhilanthropySTRAWBERY BANKE MUSEUM: $30,000 · Arts & CultureFriends of The Music Hall: $27,500 · Arts & CulturePRESCOTT PARK ARTS FESTIVAL INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureLAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureWOMEN & FAMILY LIFE CENTER INC: $9,000 · Arts & CultureBLACKSTONE RIVER VALLEY NATIONAL HERITAGE CORRIDOR INC: $7,000 · Arts & CultureCAPE COD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $4,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $3,000 · Arts & CultureCAMP SUNSHINE: $25,500 · Human ServicesNORTHEAST DISABLED ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC: $12,000 · Human ServicesRUNWAY FOR RECOVERY INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesWINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesRE-MEMBER: $5,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human Services
Other$849,500Environment$593,500Education$273,000Animals$142,000Philanthropy$119,500Arts & Culture$111,000Human Services$58,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRIENDS OF BIG ISLAND POND: $144,500 over 5y, 37% of budgetGRANITE STATE WOODLAND INSTITUTE: $89,500 over 4y, 22% of budgetGOVERNOR DUMMER ACADEMY THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY: $70,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGuilford Land Conservation Trust Inc: $63,000 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetISLAND CONSERVATION: $52,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetLand Conservation Assistance Network: $51,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $47,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS FOREVER: $42,500 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetVERMONT ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC: $40,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetThe President and Trustees of Colby College: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBABSON COLLEGE: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT PLAINS CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetSoutheast Land Trust of New Hampshire: $33,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSTRAWBERY BANKE MUSEUM: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNorthern Forest Center Inc: $30,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetFriends of The Music Hall: $27,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCAMP SUNSHINE: $25,500 over 3y, 13% of budgetBLACKSTONE RIVER COALITION: $25,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetADVOCATES FOR SNAKE PRESERVATION: $23,500 over 2y, 30% of budgetCOTTING SCHOOL INC: $23,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOREST STEWARDS GUILD: $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPRESCOTT PARK ARTS FESTIVAL INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetREAL AMERICAN HARDWOOD COALITION: $20,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCLEAN ENERGY NH: $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCONSERVATION FISHERIES INC: $20,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetPISCATAQUOG LAND CONSERVANCY: $19,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetGreat Mountain Forest Corporation: $18,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY HARVEST PROJECT INC: $18,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN FOREST FOUNDATION: $18,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ENGLAND FORESTRY FOUNDATION INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCHALLENGE UNLIMITED INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetREGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMERRIMACK RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL INC: $15,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetCOTTONWOOD GULCH EXPEDITIONS: $15,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $13,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVERMONTS CAMP TA-KUM-TA: $12,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHEAST DISABLED ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC: $12,000 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetLAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetROCKING THE BOAT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFUND FOR THE NEW SCHOOL BOULDER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWHITE BUFFALO INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSARA M HOLBROOK COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRUNWAY FOR RECOVERY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNAMI NEW HAMPSHIRE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRAYMOND COALITION FOR YOUTH: $10,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Compass FundGateway Fund 7522-Xxx…New Hampshire Charita…Davis Conservation Fo…Eastern Bank Foundati…Maine Community Found…Fidelity FoundationBoston Foundation IncNational Fish and Wil…Adelard & Valeda Roy …Eversource Energy Fou…American Tower Corpor…
The Compass FundNH47.2× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Compass Fund · Gateway Fund 7522-Xxxxxx00049 · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Davis Conservation Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Fidelity Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Adelard & Valeda Roy Foundation · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization French Fdn Tr Udecl funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from French Fdn Tr Udecl. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 16%
  • New England Forestry Foundation Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Lumibility Inc: 76% of income from government
  • Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor Inc: 59% of income from government
  • White Buffalo Inc: 56% of income from government
  • Save the Sound: 37% of income from government
  • Vermont Woodlands Association: 21% of income from government
  • Mystic River Watershed Association Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Community Harvest Project Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Uss Constitution Museum Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Boys and Girls Club of Burlington Inc: 16% of income from government
  • Essex County Greenbelt Association: 8% of income from government
  • Regional Environmental Council Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Babson College: 3% of income from government
  • Lake Champlain Maritime Museum at Basin Harbor Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Governor Dummer Academy the Governor's Academy: 1% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The University of Vermont Medical Center: 1% of income from government
  • Connecticut College: 0% of income from government
  • Cotting School Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to French Fdn Tr Udecl through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 165 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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